Republicans refuse to say that Trump lost in 2020

For six years, Trump has continued to lie about the 2020 election, with the eager approval of nearly every Republican in Congress. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is an exception to the rule.

Begich will continue to lie about the election. Sullivan, if ever pressed on the topic, will not repeat his 2021 condemnation of Trump or say that Trump’s “blatant disregard” of Pence, “infuriates me.”

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Todd Blanche will be a big issue in the Sullivan campaign

Sen. Dan Sullivan didn’t make a big show of hanging out with Todd Blanche when Trump’s unqualified choice for attorney general visited Alaska last week.

Sullivan would have found a way to accompany Blanche if he were not facing a tough election fight with Mary Peltola. Sullivan is keeping his head down about Blanche, which is Sullivan’s go-to strategy on any matter that carries a political risk.

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Shelley Hughes and her clueless claim about Alaska's giant land grant

Alaska entered the union in 1959 with a land grant that exceeded the size of California, more than 100 million acres.

But Republican gubernatorial candidate Shelley Hughes, 68, is claiming that Alaska got shafted under the deal negotiated over many years by Alaskans and members of congress who led the charge to create the state.

She claims that the only thing to do now is get the Trump administration to increase the land grant approved in 1958 by about 5 percent.

This is one of the issues on which she is clueless.

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Preposterous case against Dan J. Sullivan is federal overreach aimed at silencing dissent

The Trump administration and the Dunleavy administration are disgracefully using the power of the federal and state governments to silence one of the Dan Sullivans under the ruse of protecting “civil rights,” while giving a direct campaign boost to the other Dan Sullivan.

The federal and state investigations will force the Petersburg Sullivan to spend lots of time and money answering federal and state lawyers who have been called in to investigate the imaginary crimes ginned up by the incumbent senator and his political allies in Alaska and Washington, D.C.

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